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| Paraguay Guarani MusicPosted on October 24, 2011.  CAUTION: For the first time on the Air Mail Music series, you'll find inside booklet has liner notes Regarding With this music! Los Diablos del Paraguay Thegroup Gives a lively and modern interpretation ofthe musical traditions Of The Guarani Combining Traditional Songs with andcontemporary Polca Guaranian and rhythms. The words of songs thesefolk just to tell Of The Hard Lives of These People, Who live inthe valleys, forests, and Along the Rivers of Paraguay.CommentsCaroyln Elliff says... I recently moved to Paraguay and wanted to obtain some historical context before venturing out to explore the reductions. In the first half of the book, I found the author's explanation on the origins of the Jesuit Society informative, details regarding the division of the New World between Spain and Portugal useful, and his vignettes regarding life in the missions illuminating- but I never felt he penetrated the psyche of the Jesuits themselves. Perhaps more extensive use of actual Jesuit correspondence would have helped better reveal their thoughts, struggles, and unvarnished sentiments regarding the Guarani. The second half of the book provided the necessary, but at times tedious, description of the political machinations that ultimately gave rise to the expulsion of the Jesuits from Europe and the Guarani Republic. No detail was spared in the author's vivid description of the horrific torture of Posted on October 25, 2011 Charita Jeavons says... I was required to read this book for a Latin American geography course. As a geography major I was very interested to learn about Paraguay, because it is not well known to most Americans. Gimlette spent enough time in the country to be well versed in just about evey aspect of it, but how he communicates it to the reader is simply terrible. He sacrifices directness and brevity to fill the pages with whimsical adjectives that don't need to be there. Can anyone tell me what a "cooing, dovish waltz" is exactly? Sometimes his narration style is so casual that I'm not sure if he's providing accurate information or simply rumor and folklore. I found this book rather unpleasant to read. Posted on October 26, 2011 Buford Gearn says... That Paraguay is a place of mystery, intrigue, and sheer madness goes without saying, and Gimlette's monumental achievement of combining Paraguayan history with colorful gossip pays admirable homage to it.The problem is that it is not the Paraguay that you are likely to find should you go there.Gimlette's Paraguay is filled with Austalian Utopians, Texas ranchers, Germans, Italians, Englishmen, and the occasional Mennonite, but an inexplicable lack of mestizo Paraguayans.In fact, he seems callously aloof from the Paraguayan Everyman.I don't recall a single passage that illuminated the reader on the struggles of living in the third world.He ignores the Chacarita, Asuncion's largest shantytown that gets flooded every year.He doesn't mention the chipa vendors that haunt every single street in the country.He is fond of his social equals and populates his book with the characters that make Paraguayan history so unbelievable, but he misses the heart of the country.Not one mention of Cerro Porteno or Olimpia and only one mention of Chilavert.Shame on you Mr. Gimlette.You are a card carrying Englishman if I'm not mistaken.Quite a bit of hits but a disturbing miss on the most important aspects of the country. Posted on October 26, 2011 Sammy Emch says... With its interesting cultures, landscapes, and history, Paraguay is an engagingly eccentric and unexpectedly fascinating land. It's full of the descendants of strange groups of utopia-obsessed immigrants, who usually simply got stuck in forbidding locations and maintain weak cultural connections to their homelands. Meanwhile Paraguay remains the most indigenous nation in the Americas, and even uses the mother tongue of its original Indian inhabitants as the official language. Unfortunately, John Gimlette tries way too hard to get that charm across in this book. His writing style is overflowing with annoying non-sequiturs and forced eccentricity that leads to some chuckles and a few unexpected insights, but fails to draw the reader's interest toward all Paraguay has to offer. Gimlette is so concerned with writing in a supposedly eccentric style, that he pretty much passes over the normal in favor of the mildly charming or offbeat. Thus the book jumps around annoyingly and haphazardly among disconnected snippets of so-called "interesting" history, people, and locations. Therefore I doubt that this book gives a truly representative account of a land that is surely fascinating for many different reasons, from the strange to the mundane. [~doomsdayer520~] Posted on October 26, 2011 Elane Pandya says... I found this exciting history of early South America exceptionally well written and easy to follow. William Jaenike has done an outstanding job of bringing this period of time in the early history of the Jesuits and of the influences of various European countries into easy to understand writing. Those were bloody times and cruel times and are vividly brought to mind by this excellent author. I highly reccomend this book to all. Posted on October 27, 2011 Mellissa Gocek says... It is refreshing to read a history written by someone who is not a professional historian that is so well researched. Here is a book on a little visited corner of the world that touches on a relatively obscure chapter in history, but manages to entertain and capture its reader's interest by relating it all to the larger issues of the world stage over an extended period. While this is a book about the controversial Catholic order of Jesuits, it is not just for Catholic readers. In fact, the author bends over backward to present a balanced and nuanced narrative that should appeal to those who are more interested in historical machinations than grubby religious conflict. Posted on October 27, 2011 German Rozga says... Perhaps it was the author's choice not to try to master Guarani (though he may be surprised to learn that moat Paraguayans can handle Castellano), but 99% of his conversations were with expatriots and the upper crust of Asuncion. Without spending time sipping terere with campesinos he never had a chance to find out what the Paraguayan character was all about. He just misses the whole point of the country. His blow-by-blow accounts of the Chaco and Triple Alliance Wars were fascinating, but why did he completely ignore the devestating Civil War of the late 1940's and the rise of the Febristas. He also takes little note of the amazing explosion of media and personal freedoms, the obvious defanging of the military, and the advance of women's rights that have taken place since Rodriguez siezed power. His painting of all of Paraguay's leadership and citizenry is wholly cynical. It makes for good reading but is singularly unfair to a country that is trying its best. Posted on October 28, 2011 Justin Dusek says... Jaenike gives the reader a real treat in this book.It's a tale well told in a book that's hard to put down.The author has a capacity to tell exactly the right story to bring home signficant points, bringing into relief both saints and villains.He goes back and forth between what is happening in Paraguay between Jesuits and the Guarani on the one and, but just as importantly, on the other hand, giving the story of events in Europe that will ultimately lead not just to the demise of the Guarani missions but of the Jesuit order itself. Posted on October 29, 2011 Delena Corchado says... As an Asian-born American I was enlightened about an aspect of Western hemisphere history that I had no idea of. It was stimulating reading from cover to cover Posted on October 31, 2011 Brendon Venth says... I loved this book. It combined a very personal view of the people involved with a well researched history of the period. I thought it was both entertaining and educational. 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